Having seen Stone Foundation turn the Songbird Stage at Cornbury Music Festival into a huge party a couple of years ago, I can clearly say that this is an outfit who have earned the sold-out tours and album success. In support of their new studio album, Stone Foundation will embark on an Autumn 2018 UK Tour and you can find out more here:

To support the release of their new studio album ‘Everybody, Anyone’ which is out now, Stone Foundation will go on a thirteen-date headline tour which begins on Thursday 25th October 2018 at Ruby Lounge, Manchester, United Kingdom and concludes on Friday 23rd November 2018 at Patterns, Brighton, United Kingdom.

A full list of dates, venues and ticket links can be found below.

‘Everybody, Anyone’ is out now on 100& Records, with 11 new songs and a sprinkling of guest musicians including Kathryn Williams, Steve White, Dr Robert, Mick Talbot, The Average White Band’s Hamish Stuart and like the last album, Paul Weller, who provides guitar and backing vocals ob a couple of tracks.

The Midlands based band’s 5th studio album was recorded at Paul Weller’s Black Barn Studios in Surrey and produced by Stone Foundation founding members Neil Jones and Neil Sheasby and engineered by Charles Rees.

It is described as having a ‘harder, heavier funk vibe’ than the last one. According to Neil Sheasby: ‘In recent years I’ve heard a lot of records with great grooves but there’s no song, the message melodies were still key to the records creation. To me it sounds like a very cohesive collection of tunes, a body of work that hangs well as a complete album. The next natural step for Stone Foundation’.

Singer and guitarist Neil Jones adds: ‘We wanted to make tunes that would unite people no matter what their background or beliefs may be and also for the first time in a while explore topics closer to home that effect us all, such as family, loss and finding comfort in some of the darker times we all face. It was important we changed the sound and made it harder and heavier and ultimately funkier and to me these 11 tracks sound like 8 musicians maturing and developing as players (with a little help from some good friends)’.

You can watch the music video for ‘Standing On The Top’ created by filmmaker Joe Harvey in this article.

Glenn Sargeant